Offbeat South Korea police foil anti-Pyongyang leaflet launch

12:00 05 may 2018

12:00 05 may 2018 Source:
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SEOUL — South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

South Korean police on Saturday prevented activists from launching anti-Pyongyang leaflets to North Korea, citing an agreement reached at a historic inter-Korean summit last month.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed to restore peace and reconciliation and cease all hostile acts when they met at the border truce village of Panmunjom on April 27.

"Hostile acts" include broadcasting through loudspeakers installed along their tense border and distributing propaganda leaflets to each other's side.

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South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

Accordingly, the two Koreas removed their propaganda loudspeakers this week.

Some 300 police were deployed at a public park in Paju City near the border where a group of some 20 activists including defectors from North Korea gathered to launch leaflets by gas-filled balloons.

Police kept the activists apart from a rival group of some 40 people who accused them of seeking to ignite confrontation with the North.

"Stop provoking a war," they chanted.

Police surrounded a small truck carrying some 5,000 leaflets, plastic balloons and gas canisters, preventing the activists from unloading them.

Park Sang-hak, a leading activist and former North Korean defector, said South Koreans were "intoxicated by Kim Jong Un's peace offensive" even though the North has not changed at all.

He vowed to continue efforts to send leaflets over the border to "let North Koreans know the truth" and "bring an end to the North's Kim Jong Un regime".

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SEOUL — South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

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South Korean police on Monday blocked activists from launching anti - Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border, after fresh North Korean warnings about dire consequences if such events went ahead.

Park walks past South Korean police officers, near the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas, in Paju. Pyongyang had threatened military action if the leaflet launches were allowed by South Korean authorities and said the protest balloons were damaging to inter- Korean dialogue

PAJU, South Korea — Police intervened in a tense confrontation between residents of a South Korean border town and activists attempting to send propaganda leaflets into the North on Saturday, preventing the launch which had prompted threats of retaliation from Pyongyang .

Paju ( South Korea ): South Korean police today blocked activists from launching anti -North Korea leaflets across the heavily fortified border, amid elevated military tensions on the divided Pyongyang has long condemned the leaflet launches and threatened to shell the launch sites in retaliation.

The anti - Pyongyang leaflets , tied to several helium balloons, were launched in a field in the border city of Paju, situated some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the South Korean capital, Seoul, and in the vicinity of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea , on Thursday.

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